Day 11 :: Just plain show up
From Kathy Schuth in Indiana, a most marvelous email, with the subject line, “Mail is a Verb”: I got my book from Amazon two days ago, but had to borrow a camera to send you a picture of the box! Do you know how delighted I was to see the …
Day 12 :: Show them instead
"When he was in Kindergarten, Mitch wanted to bring his mother for show-and-tell. At the ripe age of 38, I had my first tattoo. Mitch wanted to show and tell about the etched pink hermit crab riding on my shoulder. Of course, his teacher couldn’t know where I had been …
Death by angel food cake
I read an essay by Beth Patterson while at Tybee Island with my family recently, and have been thinking about it ever since. And so, I invite you to read it. Here’s the beginning, the context: "As I live into the pilgrimage of Patti Digh’s 37 days exercise on what …
Don’t make me come find you
I’m so pleased that on the official publication date of LIFE IS A VERB, I’ll be hosted by Moe Abdou and Ryan Bettencourt at Learn From My Life for a free, one-hour teleconversation–with you! I hope you will drop absolutely everything you are doing and join me. Pre-soaking …
Here I am, I am looking at a tree, and I am going to die
I would love to stay and talk a while, but the mail just came and I, um, suddenly have a very important meeting I have to attend. Turns out that my dear sweet Billy has a new book out. Let’s all buy it and meet in a meadow and invite …
BlogHer Greensboro!
I’ve just been asked to speak at the Greensboro, N.C., BlogHer conference on October 18th. I hope if you’re in that area and attending the BlogHer conference, you’ll stop by to say hello! Hopefully, I’ll arrange a reading and book signing at a bookstore in Greensboro for the evening of …
Kiwi Verbs!
Deb Robertson is a long, long way from me. And yet, here she is, with a copy of Life is a Verb. As she put it:"Here is a photo of me with my precious new book. Actually I have three copies!! I think I will count as the person furtherest …
Day 13 :: Arrive right on time for everything that matters
If I had 37 days left — I would take off my watch and pack it up with all the others, give them to someone less fortunate than myself. I would arrive right on time for everything that matters – for every moment I had left. For the first time …
Day 14 :: Move beyond reciprocity
"What would I be doing today if I only had 37 days to live? It’s August 18 today. September 24 is 37 days away. What would I do if I knew I would die on Wednesday, September 24? I’d probably first note that I’ve hated Wednesdays since I was six …
Patti ponders a pilgrimage
GET OUT! Do you know how close Decatur is to me? Be still, my stinkin’ heart. Is anyone going? Will you take me with you? I’ll be very, very quiet. Mainly because I’ll be hyperventilating. Aw. I just checked the date. Can’t miss the first home game of the high …
